The Design of an Electronic Device for Vehicle Count in Various Traffic Conditions

The authors present the work carried out for design a complete hard and soft solution for develop an electronic device able to assist the operator and count the vehicles in different traffic conditions: urban and extra urban cross lines, national roads and highroad. The important characteristics of the device are: possibility to identify 8 vehicle category, the displacement direction and the count time. The soft interface offers for the operator a lot of facilities as: large scale of data processing in Excel format, possibility to store the data in a common database. This device was used in the last year in different conditions in order to test its reliability.